Public Health Experts Rally to Keep EPA From
Easing Asbestos Risk Rules (7/21/08)
From top doctors and scientists to widows,
public health experts are mustering to try to keep the EPA from
watering down regulations determining the cancer-causing danger
of asbestos exposure.
At a meeting in Washington tomorrow, the EPA's
Superfund cops – the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency – will
take testimony on the agency's plans to change the way it
estimates potential cancer risk to those who inhale fibers of
asbestos. More...
Medical Experts and Federal Agencies Agree: Each and
Every Exposure to All Asbestos Fiber Types, Including Chrysotile, Cause
Mesothelioma (4/16/07)
Does chrysotile asbestos cause mesothelioma? Yes. Even the
asbestos company defendants today largely agree with that simple,
irrefutable truth. Their strategy, instead, has been to persuade the Judge
to prevent the plaintiff from bringing to trial medical experts to testify
about causation without first producing job-specific epidemiology studies
that shows an elevated risk of disease among workers exposed to chrysotile
fibers only. Neither medical science nor the law requires such a showing.
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